EasyBuild: building software with ease--------------------------------------

The easybuild-easyblocks package provides a collection of easyblocks forEasyBuild http://hpcugent.github.com/easybuild) a software build andinstallation framework written in Python that allows you to installsoftware in a structured, repeatable and robust way.

Easyblocks are Python modules that implement the install procedure for a(group of) software package(s). Together with the EasyBuild framework,they allow to easily build and install supported software packages.

The code of the easybuild-easyblocks package is hosted on GitHub, alongwith an issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests, seehttp://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks

The EasyBuild documentation is available on the GitHub wiki of theeasybuild meta-package, seehttp://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Home

Related packages:

- easybuild-frameworkhttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild-framework): the EasyBuildframework, which includes the easybuild.framework and easybuild.toolsPython packages that provide general support for building and installingsoftware

- easybuild-easyconfigshttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild-easyconfigs): a collection ofexample easyconfig files that specify which software to build, and usingwhich build options; these easyconfigs will be well tested with thelatest compatible versions of the easybuild-framework andeasybuild-easyblocks packages